May 8, 2008 at 14:26About interesting projects put in a word
Recently, something has intensified the confrontation between developers who want to go for free bread and managers who cannot live without staff. Perhaps I just began to pay more attention to these dialogues. Be that as it may - I also want to express my opinion on the topic, add, as they say, five drops of wisdom to the tincture of wisdom :).
Despite the fact that I am a web developer, I will not support fellow sufferers who want to leave their uncles. Not so much because I am such an individualist from myself, how much I do not like the arguments presented by "leaving for free bread." But let's talk about everything in order.
What do developers leave their work from?
What is pushing them to radically change their lifestyle?
Why is work in another company not an alternative for them?
All these questions seem to me much more important than questions about where to go. UFOs coupled with my intuition suggest that the developers are not leaving because of low wages. Not because of conflicts with superiors. And not even because of the morbid schedule of work. They are leaving projects. From a muddy stream of boring projects.
I think everyone here knows what the lion's share of web developers feeds on. These are sites based on various site management systems. It can be with one or two "special" requirements. Stretch some standard or semi-standard template and make an alignment. No flight of fancy. And even if the space is to think about some non-standard task, the customer will quickly chop off the wings with his weighty “I want”. Darkness, right?
But do everyone understand what these developers wanted to come up with when they chose IT as their professional field? Just don’t tell me that they wanted to sit at the assembly line and rivet sites - I won’t believe you in life. Surely they wanted to create and create. Explore and invent. At least that's exactly what still beckons me in IT :). Dreams were not at all like reality. Sad
Even sadder is what the developer will do, giving up a stable salary and being seduced by independence from his uncle - he will make exactly the same sites, just as all his flights will be cut off “I want”. Another thing is that now this “I want” he will hear from the mouth of the customer directly, and not the manager. I am sure that such work will quickly die out - in this way you can’t get away from boring projects.
What to do? No matter how strange it may sound, but I will propose to engage in interesting projects. If the project is interesting, it is not so important whose projects it will be - whether it be your own startup or someone else's startup. The only question is how interesting this project will be.
It doesn’t matter if you get paid for an interesting project, or if you hope to make money in this project in the future. Still, treat him like your own. And if you work on something of your own, then the question “who should I work for?” Immediately recedes into the background. In the first place there is the question “what to work on?” With a definite answer - over what is interesting.
So, gentlemen, comrades. No need to work for uncle. No need to work for yourself. Just work on what interests you.
Despite the fact that I am a web developer, I will not support fellow sufferers who want to leave their uncles. Not so much because I am such an individualist from myself, how much I do not like the arguments presented by "leaving for free bread." But let's talk about everything in order.
What do developers leave their work from?
What is pushing them to radically change their lifestyle?
Why is work in another company not an alternative for them?
All these questions seem to me much more important than questions about where to go. UFOs coupled with my intuition suggest that the developers are not leaving because of low wages. Not because of conflicts with superiors. And not even because of the morbid schedule of work. They are leaving projects. From a muddy stream of boring projects.
I think everyone here knows what the lion's share of web developers feeds on. These are sites based on various site management systems. It can be with one or two "special" requirements. Stretch some standard or semi-standard template and make an alignment. No flight of fancy. And even if the space is to think about some non-standard task, the customer will quickly chop off the wings with his weighty “I want”. Darkness, right?
But do everyone understand what these developers wanted to come up with when they chose IT as their professional field? Just don’t tell me that they wanted to sit at the assembly line and rivet sites - I won’t believe you in life. Surely they wanted to create and create. Explore and invent. At least that's exactly what still beckons me in IT :). Dreams were not at all like reality. Sad
Even sadder is what the developer will do, giving up a stable salary and being seduced by independence from his uncle - he will make exactly the same sites, just as all his flights will be cut off “I want”. Another thing is that now this “I want” he will hear from the mouth of the customer directly, and not the manager. I am sure that such work will quickly die out - in this way you can’t get away from boring projects.
What to do? No matter how strange it may sound, but I will propose to engage in interesting projects. If the project is interesting, it is not so important whose projects it will be - whether it be your own startup or someone else's startup. The only question is how interesting this project will be.
It doesn’t matter if you get paid for an interesting project, or if you hope to make money in this project in the future. Still, treat him like your own. And if you work on something of your own, then the question “who should I work for?” Immediately recedes into the background. In the first place there is the question “what to work on?” With a definite answer - over what is interesting.
So, gentlemen, comrades. No need to work for uncle. No need to work for yourself. Just work on what interests you.